UPD 07/17/2019

Taking a break from Twitter, Facebook and Reddit for a week-long annual vacation that includes a full physical checkup and a few days fishing.

The wave of comments claiming cancer, heart disease or an exit scam is wrong: health is fine, the only condition is gout, a genetic one that does not affect the job.

No date set for returning to Twitter, but coming back means far less travel and being in the office every day micromanaging the details so Shelley ships as soon as possible.

Markets are rough and volatile mostly because Libra kicked the hornet's nest, so the only sane response to Zuckerberg is to run: either believe in the industry's fundamentals and build for the next three to five years, or chase short-term gains and be ignored.

Anyone who reads absence from a social platform as an exit scam is lying and is part of why cryptocurrencies struggle for mainstream legitimacy; staying put instead of traveling also means losing the roughly 50 pounds gained on the road, with Shelley the number one priority and IOHK here to stay, so block or mute the liars.

Long-term prospects for the industry are solid: Bitcoin went from under a dollar to $20,000 and back down to $2,500, so this is a marathon and a roller coaster, not a sprint.

IOHK has not sold any of the ADA it received as compensation for its contract, the address and a blog statement prove it, and the lifestyle behind the criticism comes from being in Bitcoin early, not from selling ADA.

Cardano's best days are ahead: Shelley ships in 2019 with two completely independent teams racing to the finish line, weekly releases and documentation to show for it, and then a reset straight into Goguen.